Word: kotto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strong cast -- including Yaphet Kotto, Ned Beatty and Richard Belzer -- helps make the group portrait work, and Levinson (who directed the first episode) shows off his Diner talent for small talk tinged with satire. ("Dry wall," says one detective, musing about leaving police work for another job. "You put up dry wall, and you got a sense of accomplishment.") Though the hand-held camera and jump cuts seem like affectations, the show hums along smoothly and is refreshingly light on violence. Detectives who grill suspects in Homicide do it with verbal cunning, not strong-arm bullying. (Belzer...